Normal lung development needs self-eating

Development and Validation of an Eating Self- Efficacy Scale

Self-eating embryos

Self-eating embryos E mbryonic cells that cannot eat themselves also can’t signal for other cells to eat them, report Xueping Qu, Beth Levine, and colleagues (University of Texas, Dallas, TX). During embryonic development, the carving out of the body’s shape requires a vast number of cells to be eliminated. Coincident with this large-scale programmed cell death, cells also perform autophagy, bu...

[Development children's eating behavior]

OBJECTIVES: Review the literature, exploring factors that contribute to the development of children's eating behavior such as the role of learning and social context. METHODS: The review of the literature was done using Medline, Psyclit, and Lilacs as resources for assessing international and national research articles on child nutrition, with an emphasis on children's eating behavior. These ar...

Self-image and Eating Disorders

Negative self-image is considered typical of eating disorders. The present thesis aimed to study clinically relevant aspects of self-image in adult patients taking part in a large naturalistic and longitudinal project at specialist units for eating disorders in Sweden. Self-image was measured using the Structural Analysis of Social Behavior (SASB), and examined together with clinical and backgr...

Cellular self-eating promotes pancreatitis

Cellular self-eating promotes pancreatitis T o survive tough times, cells sometimes resort to a form of self-cannibalism called autophagy. But as Hashimoto et al. reveal, autophagy can have a down side, destroying the pancreas by prematurely activating a digestive enzyme. In autophagy, a vesicle swallows a portion of cytoplasm and ferries it to the lysosome for digestion. The process is often b...